Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It is only through acquiescence to untold humiliation and indignities, weak surrender of self-respect, and conventional fear of the old bugaboo, public opinion, that thousands upon thousands of servicemen received "honorable" discharges. In the face of hypocritical military caste, pseudo-respect demanded by threat of court-martial, and obedience...
It was entirely justified, however, on expressive grounds in the passage that describes chorally God's setting the lights in the firmament. The whole work, indeed, though agreeable for its simplicity and general plainness, would have profited from more of these picturesque set-pieces and less of the rambling recitative...
The unique character of Harvard's theology instruction has been generally conceded as the cause of poor financial support. The Divinity School faculty preaches no dogma, but rather makes a historical approach to contemporary religions. By thus embracing rabbis to Humanists, it offers a contrast to the sectarian theological schools...
A sympathetic narrative about a boy from the Azores who likes to watch the Atlantic planes come in, and dreams of going to America, "Technical Landing," by Ivan Morris, may convey shades of Kafka to some, but as a character study the story stands well by itself. Perhaps the fact...
In Cage of Nightingales, made in France, the central character is a young teacher (French Comedian Noël-Noël) who gets a job in a boys' reform school. Ruled over by boneheaded authoritarians and worse, the boys are well on their way towards becoming neurotics or...